Chapter: 5
Kelly's P.O.V
"Come on Kelly! Time to get up!" Zigzag was sitting at the end of my bed shaking me "Time to dig!" I got out of bed and put on my orange jump suit and then filed out of the tent to the "library" where all the shovels were.
"Here ya go." Squid handed me a shovel here come with us Mom is gonna show us where we dig.
"Alright, so why do we have to get up so early?" Squid laughed
"You'll get use to it. But this is the coolest part of the day so we get up now before it gets too hot."
"Ohh" The group stopped and Mr. Sir walked around the boys and over to me.
"You dig here." He made a mark with the heel of his shoe. "Good-luck" Then he got into his truck and drove away.
I pierced the hard dry ground with my shovel but barely made an indent. Great! Only about a trillion more to go. But with each left of my shovel the time seemed to all connect and it seemed like one long shovel full of dirt but it was almost time for lunch. Every muscle on my body ached and it was hotter than ever. How can these boys do this everyday? But then the water truck drove up and Squid and Magnet appeared at the top of my hole.
"Not bad for the first day want some help?"
"Yeah that would be nice" So the two boys pulled me out of my hole with ease. All of the boys were waiting for me in line. X-ray smiled.
"Ladies first."
And with that I walked up to the front of the line and thanked him then got my water and my lunch than went back to my hole and started eating my bologna sandwich, apple, and stale cookie. All of the boys came and sat around my hole.
"So, how is your first day going?" X-ray asked
"Oh, not too badly I think I'm making Ok time what do you think?"
"Sorry to burst your bubble but your hole is just as deep as everyone else's hole." Squid said with a smile and a small laugh. Oh my God he mad a nice smile!
"What? Oh well, I think this bad boy is pretty darn deep! See! It's so deep you can sit in it without anyone else seeing you!" I jumped into my hole and sat down looking up at the boys. And then Squid jumped in sitting on top of me.
"Yeah, but you can only fit one person in here with out them being able to be seen. When you're done you'll be able to fit a lot more. Again, sorry to burst your bubble." "You think your gonna need some help later today with your hole?"
"No!" "I wanna do this all by myself! Without any help although I appreciate the offer." "I can do it!"
"Oh! Cute they are flirting!" X-ray chimed in.
"Man! Shut the hell up! Were not flirting! I was just wondering if she needed some help. You know being a gentleman like Mom told me to."
"Yeah man whatever" X-ray then looked at me and winked "In case you can't tell my main man Squid has a little bit of a crush on you I mean last night all he could talk about was you." Everyone laughed including me because they all thought I was asleep. Squid was turning a deep shade of red and threw some dirt at X-ray.
"Man! Shut-up! You don't know what you're taking about!" Everyone laughed again and then left leaving Squid still sitting on top of me I pushed him off and then quickly finished my lunch. I waited for Squid to get out of my hole.
"I'm waiting here!" "Hurry up!" I looked down at Squid and he pulled himself out of my hole and he sweaty muscles shinned in the sun. He looked at me and smiled.
"We'll see if you still don't want some help later today" He then bumped into me as he walked by and then went to finishing his own hole.
The boys got done one by one and went back to camp until it was Squid, Magnet, and I still digging. But then Magnet got out of his hole and slowly started back to camp.
"You're done already? Phew that was fast!"
Magnet laughed "Nah, not really you'll get faster trust me the first hole is the hardest. I'll see ya back in camp."
"Alrighty, see ya" About two minutes later Squid jumped out of his hole and walked to mine.
"You want some help?"
"No thanks. I think I'm gonna do this by myself. You can wait though I think I'm almost finished." With only a few more shovels full of dirt it fit in every direction. By then the sun was setting and I was tired. Squid helped me out of my hole and we sat along the edge.
"Wow! That is so pretty" I said looking up at the sunset.
"Yeah, it really is very beautiful." I looked over at Squid and noticed he had been looking at me when he said that. I blushed and just as I looked up again Squid leaned in closer to me.
"I think we should get going now it's got to be about time for dinner." Then I stood up and started walking towards the camp.
"Uhh… yah your right I guess." Squid still sat along my hole looking confused. "Well, wait up I'm coming too."
